Here are just a few answers culled from several sites. If you averaged out the answers you would get approximately three weeks after conception. The range goes from as early as one week after conception to about nine weeks.
We found one case where a woman said that her mom claimed that she would start feeling sick the day after she conceived each of her children. However the norm is anywhere between three and nine weeks.
Some women never have morning sickness and some seem to feel queasy throughout their pregnancy. However most women experience at least a couple of weeks of feeling ill.
If your breasts are tender, you feel nauseous all day, are unusually fatigued, dizzy and sometimes vomiting also it may be morning sickness. For many women morning sickness is what alerts them to the possibility that they might be pregnant.
Did you know that morning sickness occurs due to an increasing level of hormones in your body which are vital to the proper development of your placenta. So in an important way your morning sickness is a good thing since a healthy placenta is vital to your baby’s very life.
This may help you to tolerate the sickness a little more. Remember in most cases it only lasts for approximately six weeks, some have it longer and some are feeling ill for a shorter time.
If you are dizzy, feel nauseous, experience vomiting and have a fever, it is more likely flu, rather than morning sickness and you should see a doctor.
There are some steps you can take to relieve the symptoms of morning sickness, which by the way, can occur at any time of day or night.
Keep some salty crackers by your bedside and eat a few about fifteen minutes before you actually get up.
Eat five or six small meals a day, instead of three large meals.
Drink small amounts of fluids throughout the day.
Avoid foods with strong smells that can trigger the nausea such as cabbage and coffee.
Have someone else cook if possible if the smells bother you and open windows and turn on fans to remove the smells from the house.
Get plenty of rest, try to get one or two naps a day.
Avoid being in extra warm places since this can trigger nausea and vomiting.
Sniff lemons and ginger, eat watermelon, drink lemonade and or ginger-ale.
Salty potato chips are known to quell nausea.
Avoid spicy and greasy foods.
Don’t lie down right after eating.
There is a condition some women can develop that mimics morning sickness and many women don’t get treated for this right away and it can be fatal to both mother and baby.
Hyperemesis is characterized by severe nausea and vomiting, rapid weight loss and an electrolyte imbalance. Women who develop this illness need to be hospitalized for monitoring and IV fluid therapy aimed at correcting the electrolyte imbalance, managing the vomiting and monitoring both mother and child.
NEVER take any over the counter medication to control the vomiting unless the doctor specifically orders it. Contact your physician or health care provider if you can’t keep food down, are vomiting and have pain or fever or if nausea persists into the thirteenth week or beyond.
Eat healthy foods rich in minerals and vitamins such as iron. Avoid or cut down on alcohol. Avoid very spicy or greasy foods. These eating adjustments are not only good while you are nauseous, but throughout the pregnancy. Remember, the medicine, food or drinks that you consume are also being consumed by your baby.
Throughout your battle against morning sickness just remember that very few women still have morning sickness after the first trimester which will be over when you enter your thirteenth week. You will all of a sudden realize “Gee I haven’t been sick in a couple of days” and realize you have survived morning sickness. Now you can enjoy food again.
Some women have a terrible time with morning sickness with their first pregnancy but sail through subsequent pregnancies without even one bout of nausea. There are even some who have never experienced morning sickness with any of their pregnancies. A few say they get morning sickness on the first day of conception. This may be coincidental, we just know what people have told us.
Morning sickness is not pleasant but if we keep in mind the effect the hormonal increase has on your placenta development, it becomes a little more tolerable. Also keep in mind this is a temporary condition.
Just look forward to your second trimester when although you will gain weight and obviously your belly will get bigger, those three months will probably be the most comfortable of your pregnancy and for most of you morning sickness will be gone.
For the time being, use our tips to lessen the severity of your morning sickness and try to relax. Stress can also contribute to the severity of morning sickness and cause other problems for you and your baby such as increased heart rate and or blood pressure, neither you nor your child need that.
As you can see, morning sickness is a normal, if uncomfortable, reaction to certain hormones in the pregnant woman. There are things that can be done to reduce the nausea and vomiting that many newly pregnant experience in their first trimester.
